I support 100% this thread.
Even if it was unintended, treating the last RP server as it was so far, did a lot of damage to the RP community.
To recap the facts over the past couple of years:
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During BC Classic, as a moderately low population server, the Hydraxian Waterlords server was announced first as a server that would close soon his doors (pretty much like all other RP servers).
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Instead of gathering the population of all RP servers on one server (meaning opening free transfers for all RP servers towards one remaining), Blizzard decided to open free transfers from RP servers towards non-RP servers. The person(s) who took the decision visibly didn’t think much of the fact that, if players were on a RP server, it wasfor RP (roleplay). Asking them to join a non-RP server was like spitting on their face. But because they didn’t have a choice, the RP players either stopped playing or spread accross many non-RP servers which forced them - for the most part - to abandon roleplay for various reasons : unable to find enough players to roleplay with, harassed/mocked by non-RP players who don’t understand (and/or don’t want to understand) what roleplay is.
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Blizzard changed its mind and decided - a few weeks before closing all low population servers - to keep at least one RP server opened (Hydraxian Waterlords) and the only time a Free Transfer from other servers towards Hydraxian Waterlords has been done was handled very poorly: barely a couple of weeks and no proper communication, to the point that many of those who wanted to return to the HW server or - for the survivors from other RP servers - join the only remaining RP server, they missed the opportunity because it was never clearly announced (even the forum post mentioning it never gave clear dates about opening/closing free transfers for this server).
What is done is done.
However, due to how poorly handled the whole thing was, please Blizzard, could you give another shot (a real one this time, with clear communication with dates and all) to open Free Transfers from other servers (we can at least tell you that original residents from HW were “strongly encouraged” to leave HW because of its imminent closure announced, were squattered between the following Non-PvP servers: Nethergarde Keep (NK), Pyrewood Village and Mirage Raceway). I’m pretty sure a similar situation happened with Celebras survivors (I let them list the non-RP servers where they were invited to go). All the non-RP servers harboring survivors from the now closed RP realms should be given the opportunity to have free transfers with the HW server as destination, with a proper communication to the players of those realms (maybe a short mail in their in-game mailbox? I don’t think such a thing is impossible?)
This would be the only proper way to reunite the RP community in WoW (Wotlk) Classic.
Please Blizzard, we hope you will hear this call.
Thanks in advance.
A player who is really saddened to see the RP community squattered across so many servers.